政府工作报告（十四）

要大力普及和巩固九年义务教育。从今年起用两年时间，全部免除农村义务教育阶段学生学杂费，今年在西部地区实施，明年扩大到中部和东部地区；继续对贫困家庭学生免费提供教科书并补助寄宿生生活费。将农村义务教育全面纳入国家财政保障范围，建立中央和地方分担的农村义务教育经费保障机制。主要是：提高农村义务教育阶段中小学公用经费保障水平，建立农村中小学校舍维修改造投入机制，完善农村中小学教师工资经费保障机制。为此，今后五年国家财政新增义务教育经费累计将达2182亿元。在全国农村普遍实行免除学杂费的义务教育，这是我国教育发展史上的一个重要里程碑，必将对全面提高国民素质产生重大而深远的影响。要解决城市低收入家庭和农民工子女义务教育阶段上学困难问题，让每个孩子都有平等接受义务教育的机会。继续扎实推进西部地区“两基”攻坚计划，确保到2007年如期实现计划目标。发展职业教育是一项重要而紧迫的任务，今后五年中央财政将投入100亿元支持职业教育发展。高等教育要创新教育教学模式和方法，着力提高教育质量，推进高水平大学和重点学科建设。各级各类学校都要全面推进素质教育。要培养一支德才兼备的教师队伍，造就一批杰出的教育家。

We need to work hard to make nine-year compulsory education more widely available and consolidate past proGREss. Over the next two years, we will completely eliminate tuition and miscellaneous fees for all rural students receiving compulsory education. This will be done in the western region this year and extended to the central and eastern regions next year. We will also continue to provide free textbooks to students from poor families and living allowances to poor students residing on campus. Expenditures for rural compulsory education will be fully incorporated into the central and local government budgets, and a mechanism to guarantee funding for rural compulsory education through a combination of allocations from the central and local governments will be established. The main measures we will adopt are: raising the level of budgetary guarantees for common expenditures for compulsory education in both rural primary and secondary schools, setting up a mechanism to fund repair and renovation of rural primary and secondary school buildings, and improving the mechanism for guaranteeing payment of primary and secondary school teachers' salaries. To fund these measures, central government budget expenditures for compulsory education will increase by 218.2 billion yuan over the next five years. Elimination of tuition and miscellaneous fees for compulsory education in all rural areas is an important milestone in the history of the development of education in China, and it is bound to have a far-reaching impact on raising the overall quality of the people of China. We also need to solve the problems the children of low-income urban families and rural families working in cities have in receiving a nine-year compulsory education to ensure that all children have access to compulsory education. We will continue to carry out the plan to make nine-year compulsory education basically universal and to basically eliminate illiteracy among young and middle-aged adults in the western region, and ensure that the plan's target s are met by 2007 as scheduled. Developing vocational education is an important and pressing task, for which 10 billion yuan will be appropriated from the central government budget over the next five years. We will make innovations in education and in instruction models and methods in higher education, strive to improve the quality of university teaching, and promote the development of more leading universities and key disciplines. All schools need to comprehensively promote education that ensures the well-rounded development of students. We will enhance the political integrity and professional competence of teachers and train large numbers of outstanding educators.

实施人才强国战略，加强人才队伍建设。要多渠道增加对人力资源开发的投入，推进市场配置人才资源，规范人才市场管理。

We will follow the strategy of reinvigorating the country through human resources and intensify development of a well-trained workforce. We will increase funding for human resource development through various sources, strengthen the role of market forces in allocating human resources, and standardize management of the human resource market.